In New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., public spaces under-represent women’s past leadership through too few female monuments.…
Gender Issues
In the US and beyond, women have been an underutilized resource. Econlife looks at feminist issues and the changing role and value of women at home and at work.
Where Parental Leave Leads To Gender Discrimination
Questions about how much paid parental leave new dads should receive is the reason Estée Lauder is being sued by the EEOC.…
Why Gender Word Barriers Could Be Worse Than Sticks and Stones
Sometimes more harmful than “sticks and stones,” gender word barriers create images of women that demean their professional skills.…
How Low-Skilled Immigrants Support Highly Skilled Women
In additional to debating the impact of immigration on less educated men, we should look at how highly skilled women are affected.…
Why There Are So Few Female CEOs
Asking why the number of female CEOs remains low, we can look at the gender balance in workforce pipelines to the top of different industries.…
The Hollywood Gender Gap
Excluding Rey from its newest Star Wars Monopoly game, Hasbro added to a Hollywood gender gap described in a new study from USC Annenberg.…
How Women Could Elevate the Saudi GDP
Far more than constraining Saudi women, Saudi Arabia’s discrimination diminishes the entire economy’s production possibilities.…
Fracking, Fertility and Families
By comparing manufacturing and fracking communities, economists are trying to figure out why the number of single parents is soaring.…
Manufacturing, Men, and Marriage Markets
Hit by trade shock from China, U.S. communities that experience factory layoffs and closings will also see an impact on marriage rates.…
Throwback Thursday: Remembering the Traditional First Date
Only several decades ago, the dating norms that said who paid for a meal were much clearer than they are today because of women’s new economic role.…